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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Harry describes his past for his companion to dictate in the second half of the story, he describes the husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette as having what occupation?
(a) He was a taxi driver
(b) He was a taxidermist
(c) He was a military general
(d) He was a butcher

2. Compton tells Harry at the end of the story that he’ll have to stop where to refuel?
(a) Arusha
(b) Cairo
(c) Paris
(d) Zurich

3. What kind of hat is Compton described as wearing at the end of the story?
(a) A blue fedora
(b) A brown felt hat
(c) A black top hat
(d) A grey safari hat

4. What French word does the narrator use to describe drunkenness in the narrative?
(a) Ivresse
(b) Louchébem
(c) Verlan
(d) Klezmer-loshn

5. The narrator says of Harry in the beginning of the story that “he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and” what?
(a) Apathy about going on
(b) Anger that this was the end of it
(c) Sorrow for all his mistakes
(d) Irritation that he had to wait

Short Answer Questions

1. When recalling his heartbreak over losing his first, lost love, Harry recalls picking up a girl outside of what Parisian restaurant?

2. What kind of African equids does Harry see when he looks out over the plains in the beginning of the story?

3. What term does the narrator use in describing the police that followed the deserter to the woodcutter’s cabin in Harry’s flashback?

4. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?

5. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

(see the answer key)

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